Cole Orndorff from Mortenson Construction spoke to us today about how that company is utilizing technology. I really appreciate what he was saying about not using new technology just for the sake of technology. I think that sometimes any of us can get dazzled by bells and whistles and forget that a true "solution" needs to solve a problem (or drive efficiency, or drive value, or improve the customer experience...). Perhaps the best example of this was technology enabling Mort to be more nimble, regardless of the location or environment. (Yeah, being able to hook up to a satellite at the drop of a hat is pretty cool.)
But I have to say that the COOLEST and most impressive thing to come out of Cole's talk was that Mort did Disney Hall in LA! That is an incredibly neat building, inside and out.
I wonder if there's a technology that would have warned them about all the reflection issues??? Maybe they then wouldn't have had all the complaints from neighboring buildings requiring them to go back and sandblast the building to make it reflect less sunlight. I wonder what THAT ended up costing them...
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